In order to describe partial cooperation structures, this paper introduces complete coalition structures as sets of feasible coalitions. A complete coalition structure has a property that, for any coalition, if each pair of players in the coalition belongs to some feasible coalition contained in the coalition then the coalition itself is also feasible. The union stable structures, which constit...

Global health networks, webs of individuals and organizations with a shared concern for a particular condition, have proliferated over the past quarter century. They differ in their effectiveness, a factor that may help explain why resource allocations vary across health conditions and do not correspond closely with disease burden. Drawing on findings from recently concluded studies of eight gl...

Do historically excluded groups work together to further their electoral interests or do they primarily compete for a limited number of spots not absorbed by dominant interests? A growing body of work examines the dynamics of electoral coalition building versus competition but fails to incorporate fully the complexities of group identification or address how women fit into this puzzle. Applying...

universit a di genova facolt a di ingegneria dipartimento informatica sistemistica telematica Abstract The goal of this paper is to present a reasoning system, called METAFOL, embodying the features of a self-reeective system, i.e. a system which has a representation of its own code and is able to reason about and, possibly, extend or modify it. These features have been achieved by employing a ...

Internal and external coalition functioning is an important predictor of coalition success that has been linked to perceived coalition effectiveness, coalition goal achievement, coalition ability to support evidence-based programs, and coalition sustainability. Understanding which aspects of coalition functioning best predict coalition success requires the development of valid measures of empir...

This article explains how the salt-chemical industry may evolve over time from a high-energy consumption-based industry complex in the local community to a consolidated pro-growth pluralist regime at the urban scale. The salt-chemical industry is resisting to restructure to a sustainable, environmentalfriendly economic system by spilling over in the form of pro-growth political-economic coaliti...

Military Coalitions are examples of large-scale multi-faceted virtual organizations, which sometimes need to be rapidly created and flexibly changed as circumstances alter. The Coalition Agents eXperiment (CoAX) aims to show that multi-agent systems are an effective way of dealing with the complexity of real-world problems, such as agile and robust Coalition operations and enabling interoperabi...

PURPOSE To describe coalition membership, examine associations between coalition processes and short-term coalition outcomes, and assess the relative contribution of key coalition processes to perceived accomplishments in teen pregnancy prevention coalitions. METHODS A self-administered survey was distributed to active members of 21 teen pregnancy prevention coalitions in 13 communities. The ...

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